Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
BILL WYE.
Learning to Act as Special Correspondent.
A Novice In Literary and Newspaper Work,
But still he Gets Along ToIerable Well.

Side among the colored people OF Blue
Ruin:
Montmorency Tousley, of Pizen Ivy
avenue, cut his foot badly last week
while chopping wood for party on
Willow street. lie has been warned |
time and again not to chop wood when
the sign WAS not right, but he would
not listen to his friends. He not only
cut of enough Of his foot to weigh three
or four pounds, but no received the
coffee sack in which his foot was done
up ut the time. It will be some time
before he can radiate around among the
boys on PizeR avenue again.
Plum Beasley's house caught on fire
last Tuesday night He reckons it wac
caused by a defective flue, for the fire
caught in the north wing. This is one
OF Plum's bon mots, however. He tries
TO make light OF 1t, but the wood he
has been using all winter was white
birch, and when he got big dose OF
hickory at the same place last week 1t
was so dark that he didn't notice the
difference, and before he knew it he
had bigger fire than he had allowed.
Iu the midst OF pleasant flow OF con-
versation gas collected IN the wood and
caused an explosion which threw a
passed. OF live Goals on the bed. The
house was soon solid mass Of flame.
Mr.. Beasiey is still short two children.
MIR. FORMULATION Hicks, OF Boston,
Mass, who has won deserved distlnc-
ton in advancing the interests OF Sir
George Pullman, of Chicago, is here
visiting his parents, who reside on
Upper Hominy. We are glad to see
Mr.. Hicks, and hope he may live long
tovisit Blne Ruin and propitiate up and
down our streets.
Miss Roseoa Cardiman has just been
the recipient of beautiful pair OF
ch ,ste earbobs from her brother who Is
night Waterman in jewelry store
run by a man named Tiffany in New
YORK. Roseoa claims that Taffdny,
makes a right smart of her brother,
and sets heap by him.
Whooping- cough and horse distem-
per are again making fearful havoc
among the better classes at the foot OIL
Pizen Ivy avenue.
We are panied to learn that the free
reading room, established over Amalga
nation Browns store, has been closed
up by the police. Blue Ruin has
camored for a free temperance reading
room and BRAIN resort for ten years
and now Il ructiOn between two OF oul
best citizens, over the relative merits O
natural pair and n doctored flush, has
called down the vengeance OF the au
thorities and shut up what WAS credi
to the place and quiet resort, where
young men could come night after
night and kind of complicate them
selves at There are two or three mer
in this place that will bully or burs
every thing they can get into, and the.
have perforated more outrages OF
Blue Rnin than we are entitled to pu
up with.
There was a successful doings at TIL,
creek last Sabbath, during which bap
tlsm was administered to four grown
people and dude from Sandy Mush
The pastor thinks it will take tirst-rate
though it is still too soon to tell.
Surrender Adams got letter las
Friday from his son Gladstone, VIII,
flied on a homestead near Porcupine
Dakota, two years ago. lie says the,
have had another Of those unprecente(
winters there for which Dakota is 81
Justly celebrated. He thinks this sont
has been even more 80 than any of tli'
others. He wishes he was back her,
at Blue Ruin. where man can go on
doors for half an hour without gettlnj
ostraczed by the elements. He say
they brag a good deal on their ozon
there, but he allows that it can be over
done He states that "@hen the ozone il
Dakota is feeling pretty we'll and hump
ing itself and curling up sheetlrol
roofs and blowing trains off the tracl
a man has to tie clothes-line to him
self, with the outer end fastened to tn
door-knob before it is safe to visit hi
own hen-house. He says that hi
nearest neighbor is seventeen mile
away, and man might as well bu
his own chickens as to fool his none
away on seventeen miles Of clothe,
line.
1t is frst-rate letter, and the oil
man wonders who Gladstone got I
write it for him.
The valuable ecru dog OF our di'
tinguished townsman, Mr.. Pledmor
Rabbit, was seriously impaired last Sa
urday morning by an east-boun
freight.
He will not wrinkle up his nose I
another freight train.
George Wellington, OF Hickory, WI
in town the front end of the weel
lie has accepted position in the liv,
ry, feed and sale stable Mt Sandy Musl
Call again, George.
Gabriel Brant met with sad misha
lew days since while crossing Il
French Broad River, by which he 10
his leg.
Any one who may find an extra lt
below where the accident occurred wi
confer favor on Mr. Brant by return
ing same to No, 6l Pneumonia stree
1t may be readily identified by any on
as il Is made OF an old pick handle al
weighs four pounds.
J. Quincy Burns has written WI
article for the Century Magazine r
garding battle where he was at.
this article he aims to describe Il
sensations OF man who is ignorant
nhysical fear and vet yearns to ha